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• Amanda Lucretia McArthur, Michigan († 2007)
• Johannes Schoeman, Veenendaal († 2003)
• Ahrend Willem Westphal, Arnhem († 1990)
• Antonette van Helden, ROTTERDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Aartje Kamphorst, Ermelo, Ov, The Netherlands († 1927)
• Adriana Hoogenboezem, Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Adrianus Geeven, Helmond († 1917)
• Adrianus Cornelis Maria van Dommelen, Goirle († 1915)
• Alphonsus Adrianus Henricus Hamers, Tilburg († 1990)
• Angus Melvin Pederson, Cabri-Saskatchewan-Canada († 2004)

• Antonius Adriaansen (79), Woensdrecht, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Antonia johanna Wilhelmina Manders (0), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Albrecht Raymond Joris De Groote (0), Kortrijk
• Adriana de Jeu (52), Leiden
• Antonetta Johanna Wilhelmina Manders (0), Helmond
• Anna Granneman (51), Oegstgeest, Oegstgeest, South Holland, The Netherlands
• Anthonius Swart, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana de Jeu (52), Leiden
• Adriaantje Cornelia van Stalen (32), Renesse
• August Sesier (60), Neuville-sous-Montreuil, Friesland, Nederland

• 1913 » Henry Brant, Canadian-American composer and conductor († 2008)
• 1914 » Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author († 1999)
• 1914 » Creighton Abrams, American general († 1974)
• 1914 » Orhan Kemal, Turkish author († 1970)
• 1914 » Robert McCloskey, American author and illustrator († 2003)
• 1915 » Al Casey, American guitarist and composer († 2005)
• 1915 » Albert Whitlock, English-American special effects designer († 1999)
• 1915 » Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author († 1981)
• 1916 » Frederick C. Weyand, American general († 2010)
• 1916 » Margaret Lockwood, Pakistani-English actress († 1990)

• 1893 » Thomas Hawksley, English engineer (b. 1807)
• 1915 » Ernest Gagnon, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1921 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (b. 1886)
• 1926 » Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1846)
• 1930 » Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1882)
• 1938 » Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (b. 1900)
• 1940 » William B. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1874)
• 1945 » André Tardieu, French journalist and politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (b. 1881)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Albert
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Jacob
13. Antonius
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Neeltje
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
• January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
• January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
• May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
• September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
• September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
• October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.

The temperature on September 15, 1915 was between 9.3 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.